Comments on 7th CD Caucus

Sorry about your loss, Annie. You have to admit, though, that your odds were mighty long with all those women vying for just four delegate positions. But, hey, Skip Berger isn't going to Denver as a delegate either (actually, I don't know whether he even ran, as I cut out early).

For the record, I'm the guy who checked in the delegates and alternates from the 43rd, and doled out your (and Skip's) credentials.

Oh, BTW, I meant to mention this in my other comment -- while it's really a shame that two of the 237 Obama delegate positions went unfilled, that came nowhere close to threatening the 7-2 delegate split in WA-07. With all 70 Clinton delegates on hand (good for them!), the distribution would have dropped to 6-3 only if there had been 56 Obama no-shows. Well, it would have been a coin flip for the last delegate if 55 had skipped out, but losing just two was completely inconsequential.

Exactly, if it wasn't for N in Seattle, who got the correct time for when to show up (8 am) we would have had a hard time credentialing everyone.

That said, while Clinton only had one female alternate seated (from a very small group), the Obama delegates had most people show up - initially there were seven delegates who didn't show (remember, Obama won something like 80:20) but with last minute arrivals it was down to five delegates missing due to late shows.

That said, since delegates are seated by Legislative District (and the 43rd had ALL our delegate spots filled), it's really the OTHER districts that forgot to show up, not the 43rd LD.

The sad thing about Clinton alternates being seated was the two top female Clinton alternates are both friends of mine, so Elva ended up taking the seated delegate spot from Tami.

@1: He didn't give a speech. Was he even on the ballot? I don't think he was running at all.

There are still people in the world named Elva? That was my grandmother's name.

Annie, I don't know whether Skip was running. I didn't pay it much mind, since I was neither delegate nor alternate to the CD caucus.

However, with more people running for DNC delegate than there were CD delegates to choose among them, the odds were pretty good that he originally intended to.

Fnarf, as of 2005, Elva was apparently the 553rd most common female name in the country. Right behind Janelle, Lourdes, Laurel, Helene, and Fern; and comfortably ahead of Corinne, Kelsey, Ina, Bettie, and Elisabeth (note alternative spellings).

Just curious if anyone knows, what is the role of the newly elected 7th Congressional District Elector (Lesley Ahmed)? It's listed on the 36th.org site.

If the Democrat wins Washington, she'll go to Olympia and ceremonially cast one of our state's electoral college votes.

N, that's just weird. 36,000 of them! It's such an old-fashioned name; it's redolent of nineteenth-century immigrants on the Great Plains. I'd be shocked if I ever ran into another Elva.

I had another ancient auntie named Achsah; I note that's not on the list.

no older people, though.

Helen Howell is not an older person? The youngest Helen I know is 80 years old.

@5 - I didn't know you were Hispanic, Fnarf.

@8 - they elect the President.

No, I'm not kidding. That's their job.

It's not like we live in a democracy ...

Elva is not an Hispanic name, Will. Or not exclusively so. My grannie was German-Scots-American.

If Helen Howell was 36 in 1999, that would make her about 45.

You guys are so obsessed with names today!

Maybe if we called pit bulls something nice like fluffy bunnykins dogs, we might not be so obsessed about them ...

normally I lurk but since Will called me out....I have met many women with different ethnic backgrounds and there is currently a Taiwanese pop singer, Elva Hsiao. I may be mexican but it does turn out that I was named after a German woman in my small home town....

Glad to meet you, Elva. My gramma was a wonderful, wonderful woman. She's buried in Chehalis. I'm glad her name is still around.

Jesus Christ, will you stop with the Osama hype already ? Yes, he probably is the best out of all the three candidates but for the love of Mother Mary and Saint Pygmy. I bet if Obama ever visits your office, there's going to be a line to kneel in front and suck his cross.

Annie, I would have liked to see you go to Denver, but there were at least 16 women I would have like to vote for on the first ballot. An odd, painful but enjoyable dilemma. The men's field was less rich than the women's, but was still a tough choice.

@1, 6 Berger didn't even file for national delegate. Other things to do with his time, I suppose. Really, given the intense campaigns, sitting it out was not a bad choice.

Thanks for noticing that there were no older people selected. I don't know how old Majid is, but if Helen Howell is 45, we may not have any Obama delegates (from the 7th CD) older than the (relatively young) candidate.
And let me tell you, the first time voting for a president who is younger than you is freaky weird--especially if you are only in your 40s. Someday you whippersnappers will understand...